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Jeremy vs Jermane

American parents have registered 448,737 Jeremys since 1880, against 723 Jermanes. Jeremy is still ahead, with 1,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeremy against Jermane, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeremy Jermane

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jeremy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Jeremy had 3,497 and Jermane had 15.

Side by side

  Jeremy Jermane
Total US births 448,737723
Most in one year 21,74943
Babies in 2025 1,152under 5
Estimated living today 422,000680
Median age today 4041
Peak year 19771980
Best rank 15th boys1,449th boys
Rank in 2025 292ndunranked
First recorded 19231971
Girls / boys 2,312 / 446,4250 / 723

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jeremy and Jermane.